Ten Commandments monument may be joined by monkey god and Satantic tribute at Oklahoma Capitol

A Ten Commandments monument erected outside the Oklahoma
state Capitol is shown on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. After the 6-foot-tall monument
was put in place, the Oklahoma lawmaker who paid for it acknowledged the
misspelling of the words Sabbath as "Sabbeth" and maidservant as
"maidseruant."

Meanwhile, a bill authorizing a monument of the Bill of
Rights to the U.S. Constitution be placed on the Oklahoma Statehouse grounds was
filed Friday by Republican State Senator Patrick Anderson.

The bill calls for the privately funded
monument to be placed at the Capitol, and according to the Associated Press, Anderson
says more than two dozen legislators already have signed on as co-authors.

Along with the bill, a Hindu organization from Nevada is applying to have a monkey god statue placed on the Statehouse grounds. Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, said in a statement that if the Oklahoma State Capitol was open to different monuments, "We would love to have a statue of Lord Hanuman, who was greatly revered and worshiped and known for incredible strength and was a perfect grammarian."

Lucien Greaves, spokesman for The Satantic Temple, told CBS News, "The two top designs we are working with are interactive to a certain point. One is more of an object of play for children and the other is more utilitarian."

On its crowd-funding page, the group says: "As an 'homage' to Satan, the purpose of the monument is to complement and contrast the Ten Commandments monument that already resides on the North side of the building."

Oklahoma
Speaker of the House T.W. Shannon's spokesman Joe Griffin told Reuters the
Capitol was not an appropriate place for monuments such as the one proposed by
the Satanists.